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Post by Crimebuster on May 15, 2024 13:13:16 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 28, 2024 9:06:40 GMT -5
I'm going to be traveling so I can't make it. Have fun storming the castle!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 26, 2024 12:39:22 GMT -5
I've got the first variant cover for my new romance comic Geek Love #1 ready. This features Stu from the Crimebusters, following up on his meet-cute with the beat poet biker Mike in the backup story from The Crimebusters #4. I also am paying tribute to the classic ACG romance series My Romantic Adventures, which ended in 1964 with issue #138. 60 years later I'm reviving the tile for this variant. I just love this logo!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 25, 2024 17:49:33 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 21, 2024 19:54:59 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 20, 2024 22:04:34 GMT -5
The ACG Truevision issues are some of the coolest looking in comics. It's too bad they only did this for three months, because I love the black frames, and the cool coloring they used to give the 3-D effect. I only own two of them so far -- here's a great romance cover in Truevision 3-D from Romantic Adventures #47!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 20, 2024 16:16:49 GMT -5
Blackadder had one of the greatest show endings ever.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 20, 2024 16:15:32 GMT -5
I was todays year old when I discovered that the “King of Queens “ show ended with them getting divorced. That’s a terrible ending. Are there Any shows where you didn’t like the ending ? Game of Thrones, of course. After five brilliant and complex seasons, the show turned into a confused one-dimensional mess. Plot holes you can ride a dragon through, plot-imandated stupidity galore, characters who might as well be different people and a downer of a conclusion. Funny how that happened at the exact spot where they moved beyond the source material.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 12, 2024 13:15:50 GMT -5
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 12, 2024 13:04:40 GMT -5
First appearance of the Silver Age Black Canary. I've been hyping this importance of this book for 15 years, but it's only recently that it seems to have caught on some. The classic black cover doesn't hurt either.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 5, 2024 16:25:26 GMT -5
If anyone wants to spend their Friday night partying like only comic book nerds can, I'm doing a livestream at 10pm ET to count down the last hour of the campaign. Everyone's invited to join, I'll be fielding questions and talking about comics! The embed feature here doesn't seem to love livestreams, so here's the link.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 5, 2024 14:35:32 GMT -5
Well, we hit the goal! Just barely, but I will take it for sure. I really appreciate everyone's support!
There's still 7 hours left until it ends, so hopefully we'll get a couple more backer before it ends, but I'm just relieved it funded. I'm probably going to set a lower goal for the next issue so it's not as stressful. And I am trying to figure out some ways to make this series more sustainable so I can keep it going.
Of the 14 Kickstarter campaigns I've done, the only ones that I've lost money on are all three Quest issues. I'm basically running just 20 backers short of break even but I haven't been able to really grow the backer base at all from the first issue to close that gap. Barring a last minute surge for this campaign, all three issues are going to come in at almost the exact same number of backers and money raised. So I will need to try and cut costs to bring the cost in line with the support that I do have.
I already have most of issues #4 and #5 done and paid for, so I might just have to eat more losses with those, but starting with #6 I'm going to have to do some belt-tightening, probably meaning fewer variant covers from other artists and more by me. I might also start doing the back covers myself as well to save money, though I already have the back cover for #6 done, so that wouldn't be until issue #7.
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 5, 2024 14:29:23 GMT -5
Issue 7 already, this is quite an achievement! Congrats, Scott! Thank you!
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Quest
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 4, 2024 0:37:37 GMT -5
Not sure if it will yield any results, but in the last 2 days I've posted the KS link and a blurb about it on my Twitter, Mastadon and Bluesky with appropriate comics and ttrpg tags, and to a handful of comic and/or ttrpg FB groups we are a part of. I really dug the first 2 issues and want to see #3 (and more). -M Thank you, I really appreciate it!
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Post by Crimebuster on Apr 3, 2024 14:06:04 GMT -5
This week's theme: covers penciled by Bob Oksner. As usual, the rules are: • Post one, and only one, classic cover that fits the theme of the contest. • Your cover must be from a published comic book or collected volume published before April 2014. • Please include the title and the issue number of the comic, preferably in bold, in case some posters cannot see your image. (Admittedly, I never do this) • Covers must be posted before voting begins. • Voting takes place on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, beginning at 12:01 am PST and ending at 11:59 AM PST. • Vote by posting the name of the poster whose cover best fits the theme or that you simply like the most in bold. • The winner of the contest is the entrant with the most votes after the voting period ends. • The winner gets to choose the theme for the next week's contest. • If you don't think the cover fits the theme, don't post disparaging remarks about it. Just don't vote for it and keep quiet. • If a cover is more recent than the classic time frame, kindly point it out to the poster, who may then choose an alternate before voting begins A sample entry:
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